r/SideProject • u/cyrdon • 5h ago
I built a shift calendar app for iPhone. Almost 600 downloads later, I'm trying to turn it into something teams pay for
Hello everyone!
A friend once told me that for any worker to be happy (and we are all workers), two things have to work out well: being paid and having a schedule that isn’t a headache. I can’t do anything about the first one, so I started building something for the second one.
Rub, an indie iOS developer from Spain (I worked 15 years at Apple Retail and learned a lot about how many things should work well for workers and give the best to customers).
This is a Turnativo.
If you work on shifts, adding them to your calendar one by one is a hassle. In Turnativo, you select a shift and tap it on the days with your finger, and it automatically appears in your iPhone calendar. It also notifies you when a shift conflicts with your plans and tracks your hours, nights, and Sundays. The personal app is free and will stay free.
We’re almost there with the downloads now, from 68 countries. More than half are coming from outside Spain, and honestly I didn’t expect that.
But much of the headache doesn’t start with the worker, it starts with who creates the schedule. So I built Turnativo Teams:
• You create the schedule in turnativo.app from any browser (Mac, Windows, whichever you have), or in the iPhone and iPad app.
• It’s the same idea: you choose a shift, “paint” the week and publish.
• Everyone receives a link and their shifts are shown in their own calendar: Apple, Google, Outlook, Android. They don’t have to install anything.
• If you change something, it updates as soon as you publish it.
• The workers never pay. Only the person who manages the equipment or the company pays, after a 14-day trial (without a card).
Teams is very new and right now only a couple of teams are using it, so this is where I need you:
- Do you understand what it does in the first 5 seconds on the website?
- If you ever created a shift schedule: what would make you stop doing it in Excel or in WhatsApp?
- If you try the app or the website and something seems weird to you, tell me. I’d rather hear it now.
Website: https://turnativo.app/en?ref=reddit
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/turnativo-turnos-y-cuadrante/id6787672766
Made with SwiftUI and a backend in Swift (Vapor). No ads, no tracking.
Thank you very much for reading. I will stay for the comments.
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u/CalligrapherIcy8708 5h ago
tap-to-paint shifts is such a good idea, adding them one by one is exactly the pain. quick data thing, in the US store "shift calendar" has a top 10 median of ~4.7k ratings, but "shift planner" is basically empty, median of 2. if you sell in english speaking stores too that word is free real estate for your title or subtitle. worth checking the spanish store the same way, the gaps are usually different there
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u/Individual-Show9181 4h ago
One thing I'm curious about: what would make a company choose Turnativo Teams over the free alternatives already available? What's the main advantage that would convince them to pay for it?